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Welcome back! It’s Saturday morning again which means it’s time for the next chapter of our ongoing serial The Crimson Ghost and more movie serial history. (Previous Chapters: 1  2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) Since today’s episode is largely devoted to catching up those who came in late, it se read more

Welcome back! It’s Saturday morning again which means it’s time for the next chapter of our ongoing serial The Crimson Ghost and more movie serial history. (Previous Chapters: 1  2, 3, 4, 5, 6) It’s funny sometimes how we as Americans can be so eager to and expert at exporting our read more

Welcome back! It’s Saturday morning again which means it’s time for the next chapter of our ongoing serial The Crimson Ghost and more movie serial history. (Previous Chapters: 1  2, 3, 4, 5, 6) It’s funny sometimes how we as Americans can be so eager to and expert at exporting our read more

Welcome back! It’s Saturday morning again which means it’s time for the next chapter of our ongoing serial The Crimson Ghost and more movie serial history. (Previous Chapters: 1  2, 3, 4, 5) Due to the Thanksgiving holiday here in America, I’m going to take today off and skip this read more

Welcome back! It’s Saturday morning again which means it’s time for the next chapter of our ongoing serial The Crimson Ghost and more movie serial history. (Previous Chapters: 1  2, 3, 4, 5) Due to the Thanksgiving holiday here in America, I’m going to take today off and skip this read more

Welcome back! It’s Saturday morning again which means it’s time for the next chapter of our ongoing serial The Crimson Ghost and more movie serial history. (Previous Chapters: 1  2, 3, 4) So far we’ve been looking at the very early history of serials in America, but of course we we read more

Welcome back! It’s Saturday morning again which means it’s time for the next chapter of our ongoing serial The Crimson Ghost and more movie serial history. (Previous Chapters: 1  2, 3, 4) So far we’ve been looking at the very early history of serials in America, but of course we we read more

Welcome back! It’s Saturday morning again which means it’s time for the next chapter of our ongoing serial The Crimson Ghost and more movie serial history. (Previous Chapters: 1  2, 3) Last time we took a look at the earliest movie serial, 1912’s What Happened to Mary. This time, read more

Welcome back! It’s Saturday morning again which means it’s time for the next chapter of our ongoing serial The Crimson Ghost and more movie serial history. (Previous Chapters: 1  2, 3) Last time we took a look at the earliest movie serial, 1912′s What Happened to Mary. This time, read more

Welcome back! It’s Saturday morning again which means it’s time for the next chapter of our ongoing serial The Crimson Ghost and more movie serial history. (You can find Chapter One here and chapter two here. ) Last week I spent some time talking about movie serials and how they fit into read more

Welcome back! It’s Saturday morning again which means it’s time for the next chapter of our ongoing serial The Crimson Ghost and more movie serial history. (You can find Chapter One here and chapter two here. ) Last week I spent some time talking about movie serials and how they fit into read more

Welcome back! Yep, it’s Saturday morning, which means it’s time for the next chapter of The Crimson Ghost. (You can find Chapter One here.) But before we get to that, let’s talk about movie serials in general. For most people, the term “movie serial”, if they have even read more

Welcome back! Yep, it’s Saturday morning, which means it’s time for the next chapter of The Crimson Ghost. (You can find Chapter One here.) But before we get to that, let’s talk about movie serials in general. For most people, the term “movie serial”, if they have even read more

First off, an apology for those who might have come here this morning looking for another Saturday Morning Cartoon installment, but the truth is, while I would have loved to continue the feature, it was simply too hard, due to copyright concerns, to find really good examples of a lot of the shows th read more

First off, an apology for those who might have come here this morning looking for another Saturday Morning Cartoon installment, but the truth is, while I would have loved to continue the feature, it was simply too hard, due to copyright concerns, to find really good examples of a lot of the shows th read more

  Ruth of the Rockies consisted of fifteen-two-reel-chapters, and only two of its episodes are extant, as far as we known the rest are lost. The surviving chapters are numbers fourteen and fifteen (The Secret of Regina Island and The Hidden Treasure), they are held at the UCLA Film & Telev read more

Frank Leon Smith Frank Leon Smith was a short story writer,[1] and he worked for the Adams Newspaper Service,[2] which was a syndicator of columns to various newspapers across the country.  Mr. Smith had nearly twenty short stories published before his first scenario was filmed. He was considered a read more

Frank Leon Smith Frank Leon Smith was a short story writer,[1] and he worked for the Adams Newspaper Service,[2] which was a syndicator of columns to various newspapers across the country.  Mr. Smith had nearly twenty short stories published before his first scenario was filmed. He was considered a read more

Frank Leon Smith Frank Leon Smith was a short story writer,[1] and he worked for the Adams Newspaper Service,[2] which was a syndicator of columns to various newspapers across the country.  Mr. Smith had nearly twenty short stories published before his first scenario was filmed. He was considered a read more

  Ah, Terror Island! I cannot resist the dynamic-duo of a melodramatic-thriller and the ‘one and the only,’ the ‘Handcuff King’ himself, Harry Houdini! Even with one or two missing reels, this little Paramount Aircraft Picture still crackles with excitement, and is rippled with ingenuity. read more